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Clinton, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Mantua-West Greene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35462. It stands on Harkness Branch. The Survey maps it on the Union quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Clinton within Greene County

On record in Clinton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Masonic Temple, State Routes 14 & 39, Clinton, Greene County, AL
Masonic Temple, State Routes 14 & 39, Clinton, Greene County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 410 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170930-5
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140930-002
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Other causesunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 181, AL
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism21 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2005Tornado (F1)Clinton$250,000A tornado touched down just east of County Road 20 near Trussells Creek. The tornado moved roughly parallel to Trussells Creek and lifted before the town of Clinton. This tornado primarily affect rural countryside in west central Greene County. The tornado did produce significant tree damage along its path as hundreds of trees were snapped off or uprooted along the path. Many acres will have to be clear cut to salvage the timber. The tornado damage path was 6 miles long and 250 yards wide at its widest point. This tornado was produced by the remnants of Hurricane Rita. Begin: 32 50.52/88 03.94 End: 32 54.37/87 59.85
April 2003HailClinton$3,000The first severe, supercell thunderstorm began forming across northern Sumter County and became severe in northern Greene County. This storm produced penny to quarter size hail near Pleasant Ridge, near Union, and near Knoxville. A few trees were also blown down near Union. A rotating wall cloud and funnel cloud were observed at several locations in Greene County associated with this storm.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindClinton$3,000A few trees were blown down from near the Lewiston community to near Mantua.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindClinton$2,000Several trees were blown down near the Mount Hebron community in extreme western Greene County.
March 2021Tornado (EF1)Clinton-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in northern Greene County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 100 mph.||This tornado touched down along County Road 174 and crossed Highway 14 between Clinton and Eutaw. It continued northeastward, snapping numerous trees along County Road 181 and County Road 199. The tornado then weakened with sparse tree damage, dissipating along County Road 218.
May 2021Tornado (EF0)Clinton-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Greene County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. Observed damage only included a few uprooted softwood trees and a few broken large branches. The damage was collocated with a tornado debris signature (TDS) from the KBMX RADAR. The majority of the tree damage was in an inaccessible area along and near Tubbs Creek.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindClinton-Several trees were uprooted along Highway 39 near Clinton.
April 2004HailClinton-Dime to quarter size hail fell in and around the city of Clinton.
March 2007HailClinton-no account filed
February 2004HailClinton-no account filed
February 2004HailClinton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
West Greene5.0 miles7
Mount Hebron5.4 miles9
Union6.6 miles14
New Mount Hebron7.0 miles9
Crawford Fork7.4 miles9
Eutaw7.5 miles15
New West Greene7.6 miles8
Gosa8.4 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ClintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679031The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116272. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.